Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you...The MetropoleHotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutallyraped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked.Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender...Detective SuperintendentRoy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similaritiesto an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetratorhad been dubbed 'Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women beforemurdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or hasShoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomesincreasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that bydelving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missingwife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key tounlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themselvesin a desperate race against the clock to identify and save the life of thenew sixth victim...